iPad for Beginners - Fall 2014

Bridget Gibbons Gibbons Digital Consultants

Fall 2014

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The Basics

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Apps are the way to go! �  40 billion apps have been downloaded — since the iOS

App Store opened in 2008. �  Half of those, 20 billion, were downloaded in 2012. �  There are now 775,000 iOS apps available �  300,000 iPad apps

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How to find good apps? �  Check Curated Websites And Blogs

�  AppAdvice, MacStories, iMore, TUAW �  Check iTunes App Store Reviews � Make sure the app Isn’t abandoned

�  Check the updated date

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Built in Apps •  iPad comes with built-‐in apps that are basic business tools

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Business Produc\vity •  Top 3 business tools: Pages, Keynote, Numbers

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Top Apps

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Twi>er

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Twi>er �  Simple to operate: sign in with your account and your stream of tweets will be displayed.

�  You can see photos and websites that your followers have shared right within your stream

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Facebook

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Facebook �  View your Newsfeed �  View photos �  Send messages to your friends

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Pinterest

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Pinterest Benefits �  You can browse others in different categories (travel, food, etc.) by swiping in from the lee side.

�  The highlight here is content – photos are beau\fully displayed and it's easy to flip through others' boards and admire the striking collec\ons of cool stuff.

�  You can also browse the web through the app and pin new things to your boards.

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Skype

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Skype �  one of the best cross-‐plahorm video calling services. �  The app works much like the desktop programs. �  Log in with your username and password and you'll get a list of your contacts.

�  You can choose to video call with them, send them a message, or make a regular voice call.

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Amazon Kindle

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Amazon Kindle �  Choose from millions of \tles in Amazon store � Access any books you've bought on other Kindle e-‐readers right on the tablet

� Has a feature called X-‐Ray, which shows the "bones of the book," including the main characters and places

�  You can also purchase magazines through the app

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Flipboard

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Flipboard Benefits �  Social reader app – log in with your social network and it gathers all the links to the stories and photos your friends are sharing in a clean layout

�  Flip through pages and pages of stories that are popular with your friends.

�  Customize your news sources and select different topic areas

�  Basically, build your own personalized magazine

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News360

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News360 �  Similar to Flipboard but is for the harder news addict �  Launch it, select the topics you are interested in – poli\cs, technology, health, etc.

�  It feeds you current news about each of those from different news outlets

� Will analyze what you like and start to feed you more about those stories

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Instapaper

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Instapaper �  Reading a long ar\cle on your computer is not fun �  Sign up for an Instapaper account (instapaper.com) and when you come across a long ar\cle on your computer, you can "Instapaper it" with a bookmarklet that you install

� When you log in to that same account through the iPad app, the ar\cle will appear in an easy to read format

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Evernote

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Evernote �  Step up from Apple's built-‐in Notes app. �  The cross-‐plahorm app syncs your notes from the web and all of Evernotes other apps so you always have them in one place.

�  You can insert images and voice reminders within your notes too.

�  Evernote has organized all your notes into notebooks, which you can give a cover photo.

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Dropbox

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Dropbox �  Best way to get photos and files from one device to another.

�  The app can be downloaded on your computer (Mac or PC), your phone, and your iPad. Drop a file in your Dropbox on your computer and it will pop up on your iPad.

�  It's a great way to transfer images or files. Dropbox gives you 2GB for free;

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YouTube

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YouTube � While ShowYou is great for seeing what others are watching, nothing can top the official YouTube app.

�  It features lists of video topics on the lee side along with subscrip\ons to your favorite channels.

� When you play a video at full screen, you just have to swipe from the lee to bring back those channels.

�  Swipe from the right and you will see suggested videos based on the one you are watching

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HuluPlus

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HuluPlus � One of those must-‐have apps for turning your iPad into a TV replacement.

�  If you have a Hulu Plus subscrip\on ($7.99 a month) you get unlimited streaming through the app

�  You get all the standard video controls, but move to the split screen mode and you can watch a video while browsing other shows.

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Beamly

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Beamly �  The app shows you what people are talking about – the biggest buzz around shows, what the stars are watching and what people are ra\ng shows.

� When you input your zip code and cable provider it will also give you a guide of the day's programming and what the buzz is about the show with data from Twi>er.

�  If you happen to be watching the same show as a friend you can even chat with them within the app about it.

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Spo\fy

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Spo\fy � Ho>est music services and its iPad app shows off its greatest features.

�  Log in and you will be presented with your collec\on of songs, albums and playlists on the lee side.

� On the right column you see the list of songs. The app also surfaces op\ons which are buried in the desktop apps or sites, like the Inbox and messaging features.

�  There's also an easy search func\on and "What's New" area to see top songs.

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Pandora

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Pandora � Must-‐have when it comes to discovering music. �  Log in with your account and you'll get all your saved sta\ons.

�  You can easily search for an ar\st or song to create a new sta\on. T

�  he app is decently designed but don't expect any bells and whistles here

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Shazam

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Shazam �  Popular music iden\fica\on app

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Fab

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Fab �  Fab has become one of the most popular places to shop on the Internet because of its social media \e-‐in and its awesome inventory.

�  You can browse lots of cool stuff in the well laid-‐out app. �  You can see what your friends have bought or liked if you log in with your Facebook account.

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Red Laser

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Red Laser �  RedLaser scans the ordinary bar code on any product and shows you all the prices of that product in your area.

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Words with Friends

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Words with Friends �  You will find that some have turned their iPads into Words with Friends machines, just playing the Scrabble-‐like game with opponents for hours and hours.

�  Zynga's Words with Friends is exactly what it says it is – a word game to play with your friends.

�  Very similar to Scrabble, each player gets a selec\on of le>ers and has to create words.

�  Sign in with Facebook and you can start games with your friends. You can play mul\ple games at the same \me.

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Virtuoso

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Virtuoso Piano 3 �  Piano keys are conveniently labeled with chords and colors to help you learn, and right and lee arrows at the top help you progress and navigate the keyboard, bringing you up and down the scale.

�  For $.99 each you can purchase addi\onal packs, such as guitar packs as well as the ability to disable ads.

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Photoshop Express

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Photoshop Express �  Provides you with the basic edi\ng tools to crop, adjust or create effects from digital images.

�  If you use Adobe's Photoshop soeware, you will find a familiar set tools in this app such as flip, straighten, crop and rotate. Select a photo from your collec\on, and then press the edit bu>on.

�  A row of tools appear as icons on the bo>om; tap on the lens icon to apply camera filters, such as Soe Focus or Sharpen. Press Crop and swipe from the top or bo>om corners to adjust the frame.

�  Adobe offers a more basic free app called Photoshop Express, but Photoshop touch provides more interac\v

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ESPN Scorecenter

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ESPN Scorecenter �  Scorecenter for iPad contains a rich amount of informa\on and detail on the games and teams fans love to follow.

�  Tap the menu bu>on to access any sport-‐-‐football, for example. Select NFL to see a recent calendar of teams that played and the scores, too.

�  The app allows users to view video replay; swipe to the right of the screen and the screen loads the selected video quickly, and also provides a quick cap\on of what you're about to see.

�  This is a comprehensive app with an enormous amount of data at your finger\ps.

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Around Me

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Around Me �  Around Me locates the nearest gas sta\on, bank or restaurant for you, and

the newest release even lets you book a hotel. �  Launch the app and a column with categories to search appears on the lee

side, and a map with your current loca\on loads onto the main screen. �  Tap "Supermarkets," for example, and the app loads the nearest op\ons in

the lee side column with the address and distance from you. �  The app contains a useful set of map tools, such as zoom and search

bu>ons; press the compass icon, enter in your address, and the app will adjust the loca\on on the map below.

�  Tap the Hotels tab, and the app provides a list of hotels nearest you including star ra\ngs and the lowest rate available per night.

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Dark Sky

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Dark Sky �  The preuest one you will find. A weather radar for local forecasts, the app provides up-‐to-‐the-‐hour weather predic\ons for your specific loca\on.

�  The GPS driven app also employs radar anima\on to show you the path of rain or a snowstorm.

�  You can even pinpoint the arrival of a storm or precipita\on; the middle sec\on provides tabs indica\ng the weather now and an hour from now (press the Next Hour tab and it will display addi\onal predic\ons including the next few hours and look ahead to the morning, too)

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TED

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TED �  TED is a series of events featuring some of society’s most fascina\ng and innova\ve ideas and most influen\al thinkers.

�  You’ll definitely disagree with some of them, because there’s a large diversity of opinions.

�  But, there are a lot of talks worth listening to and they’re all free. Many of the talks are short and succinct, somewhere between 5-‐20 minutes.

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NPR

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NPR � Another one of the best iPad news apps from a media organiza\on is the NPR app.

�  It lets you quickly skim top stories, read related text ar\cles, and quickly add radio/audio stories to a playlist that you can then listen to all at once.

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NASA

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NASA � NASA has a strong tradi\on of sharing its space explora\on advances and research and they’ve con\nued that tradi\on in mul\-‐touch style with an excellent iPad app that lets you explore photography from satellites, see NASA’s launch schedules, research historical informa\on about missions, and watch NASA TV live.

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Louvre HD

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Louvre HD �  Providing excellent photos of 150 of the Louvre’s most popular masterpieces, chosen by the museum’s curators. It also provides a virtual tour of the Louvre itself.

�  It’s great that this app provides a visual tour and gives you a map to help you find each of the 150 masterpieces. It also provides excellent informa\on on the artwork and the museum itself.

�  This is the kind of app that can enhance your real world experience of a place, or virtually take you to a place you may never visit.

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AllRecipes

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AllRecipes �  Allrecipes provides some of the best cooking tools on the iPad. Its main app provides thousands of recipes in a well-‐organized layout. But to add to that Allrecipes has released its Video Cookbook app, which provides users with thousands of recipes and hundreds of how-‐to videos to help you cook up a storm, step-‐by-‐step.

�  Tap on a dish, such as Green Grape Salad. On the right-‐hand side, the app displays shopping list of ingredients and cooking direc\ons and on the lee side, the app displays video synced with simple instruc\ons as well as es\mate prep and cook \mes. Other cooking apps, such as Foodily and Epicurios, provide helpful how-‐to's and recipe as well.

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Vegetarian How to Cook Everything

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Vegetarian How to Cook Everything �  Ten dollars might seem pricey for a Vegetarian cooking app, but this is like buying a premium cookbook. New York Times columnist and author Mark Bi>man provides vegetarians with over 2,000 recipes in this app, making it easy to incorporate variety into a diet that might otherwise seem limited. Search by recipe or type in a general term to find a slew of possibili\es.

�  The app includes a built-‐in \mer so you can keep track while you cook. Select a recipe and tap the "Favorites" key to add to your list of go-‐to recipes. Tap on a featured recipe, and see an overview of the dish, as well as ingredients, prepara\ons steps and varia\ons on the selec\on.

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Pocket Yoga

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Pocket Yoga �  Visual and voice instruc\ons guide prac\\oners through each pose in an effort to make doing the rou\nes accessible any\me. Select "Prac\ce" from the main screen and choose from workouts labeled Ocean, Desert and Mountain.

�  Once you select your workout, decide on a length of \me; you can select a 30-‐minute, 45-‐minute, or 1-‐hour workout. The instructor, represented by an illustra\on, narrates the workout, pose-‐by-‐pose, peppering in breathing instruc\ons, too, as you move. Convenience is the word that comes to mind with this app—place your iPad or iPhone at the end of you yoga mat and go.

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Best Parking �  Find the cheapest and most convenient parking facili\es in 105 ci\es & 115 airports throughout North America. Save hundreds of dollars!

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